Chronological science Weblog/Links

DEET a human neurotoxin August 07, 2009 :: See also this story. So I guess my paranoia about DEET is not just retarded horseshit. By using toxicological, biochemical and electrophysiological techniques, we show that...

Estrogen analog BPA shown to enter urine during normal use June 05, 2009 :: Bisphenol-A (BPA), an estrogen analog used in polycarbonate and other plastic manufacture, has been shown to enter the urine during "normal" use (i.e. putting cold water in a polycarbonate...

Humans or Bacterial Colonies? June 05, 2009 :: I was playing around with Wolfram Alpha and noticed that there are an order of magnitude more bacteria (1015) in our bodies than there are human cells (1014)...

Cool: paper published April 30, 2009 :: I helped my friend Kyle with writing some Python code to do clustering of GPS data for his Biology PHd project. He has published the following paper which has my name on it also; pretty ...

Yay science! Glow-in-the-dark puppies! April 23, 2009 :: The next great leap for our awesome Science is...bumbumbum...glow in the dark transgenic dogs! Obviously, a pressing problem has been solved here. What a great day for mankind. Be sure to...

Lamarkian evolution not horseshit afterall? February 16, 2009 :: A new study finds that acquired traits can actually be passed on -- better known as "Lamarkian evolution", widely "debunked" and ridiculed as early as high school. ``In Feig's study,...

"Does not seem possible" that the LHC will destroy the Earth... January 23, 2009 :: So, all those scientists who were "absolutely certain" that the mini black-holes created by the Large Hadron Collider (turned on briefly a few months ago, breaking it) will not last long...

Wilderness Lake to Tailings Pond: Rubber-stamp June 17, 2008 :: Federal Bureaucrats are allowed to redefine lakes and rivers as "tailing containment facilities" (aka toxic waste dumps for mining debris) and are doing just that to a bunch of lakes and...

Spontaneous Universes? June 10, 2008 :: Apparently more observation and data-processing of the microwave background radiation reveals evidence for time existing before the big bang and spontaneous formation of universes from "parent"...

Lotsa Meat equals lotsa cancer July 13, 2007 :: Study links breast cancer to "Western" (high meat, high sugar) diet. The study compared post-menopausal women living in Shanghai who ate a "meat-sweet" diet high in meat, dairy,...

Buttery flavoured lung disease May 08, 2007 :: The flavouring agent most used to cause a buttery sensation in microwave popcorn (yuck!) causes a weird, rare lung condition which basically plugs your lungs. Mostly, this affects the people...

Mercury-in-fish global health problem March 08, 2007 :: Pregnant women (or women planning to get pregnant at any point) should avoid fish, most especially larger predators (tuna, etcetera) and carefully monitor intake of other fish like perch...

Biggest Invetebrate Ever March 08, 2007 :: Fishermen off the coast of New Zealand have found the largest invetebrate ever, weighing in at almost one thousdand pounds! Scientists have believed that squid could grow to this...

ADD drugs to finally get warnings February 22, 2007 :: The drugs used to treat ADD (aka ADHD) (1%-2% of north american kids are prescribed one) are (finally!) going to get warnings about cardiac and psychiatric risks in the US; Canada isued ...

Chimps hunting with spears February 22, 2007 :: Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed using sharpened sticks to hunt other, smaller, primates.

Gravity perturbations measure ice loss August 14, 2006 :: Pretty cool: a pair of satellites is being used to measure subtle changes in the Earth's gravitational field and hence changes in the mass of ice in Greenland and Antartica. Not cool...